About Nina Stibbe
Nina left Leicestershire for London as a teenager and after two years as a nanny she studied Humanities at Thames Polytechnic.
After graduating in 1987, she worked for a while in a Camden frock shop.
In 1990 she began a career in book publishing, working in various departments before becoming a commissioning editor at Routledge.
In 2002 she moved to Cornwall with her partner and children where she now writes, swims and makes bread.
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💜What A Day!
Queen Kamala, Michelle & Barry, magnificent Gaga, glorious Amanda, lovely Dr Jill, all the coats, Joe’s speech, and Bernie’s mittens🧤
So thankful, moved, and relieved. Goodnight American friends 💕🇺🇸#Inauguration2021 144 Likes 5 Retweets
Queen Kamala, Michelle & Barry, magnificent Gaga, glorious Amanda, lovely Dr Jill, all the coats, Joe’s speech, and Bernie’s mittens🧤
So thankful, moved, and relieved. Goodnight American friends 💕🇺🇸#Inauguration2021 144 Likes 5 Retweets
I’m here today because of the women who came before me. https://t.co/ctB9qGJqqp 67.3K Retweets
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@Emmabarnett @BBCWomansHour
Actually, Clemency’s wonderful book kept my mum and my friends going at the start of lockdown:
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day by Clemency Burton-Hill https://t.co/ROkNR9CMRM 2 Likes
Actually, Clemency’s wonderful book kept my mum and my friends going at the start of lockdown:
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day by Clemency Burton-Hill https://t.co/ROkNR9CMRM 2 Likes
The wonderful Clemency Burton-Hill is on Woman’s Hour today @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/vQbD1AO0Dc 28 Likes 3 Retweets
@itsallgravy4 @SallyBayley1 @WmCollinsBooks A gift I don’t want to part with. 1 Likes
Also, @SallyBayley1 it says in your Twitter bio that No Boys is out last January 💛 4 Likes
@jennsbigreads @CWIPprize @HelenLederer @CandiceC_W @AngelaMakholwa @KirstyJaneEyre @michellegallen Congratulations Jennifer! 😊 1 Likes
bookshelf of faves featuring @SallyBayley1’s brand new #NoBoysPlayHere out this month! @WmCollinsBooks https://t.co/MLOfO9gAZ5 17 Likes 2 Retweets
It’s such a rich time for new books that there’ll be three #TwitterBookLaunch parties this week, celebrating the work of authors publishing in lockdown. It’s too early in the day for dry-roasted peanuts but that’s all there is I’m afraid…. 23 Retweets
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Nina's Blog
The good nanny
My book Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life is the letters I wrote to my sister when I was a live-in nanny to two boys in the…
Read MoreGoing home for Xmas
First published in Psychologies, January 2014 Until I had children of my own I almost always went home for Xmas to my mum and step-dad’s house…
Read MoreAlmost famous
First published in The Sunday Times, 10th Nov 2013 When I left Leicestershire in the 1980s, to become a nanny in London, the thing that most…
Read MoreNot in front of the children
An edited version of this article was published in The Guardian, 10 November 2013 ‘We’ll have to stop swearing soon’, I said to my friend a few…
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